resentful - Story 117260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The promotional flyer, with *his* name on it, advertising *her* innovative product. She felt a cold wave wash over her, numbing everything but the sharp, stabbing pain in her chest.

She went to the park, seeking solace, but the happy families, the laughing children, the ordinary joy of the day, all only magnified the bitter emptiness within. The swings, the trees, the sunlight – they were all mocking her.

She found herself sitting on a bench, a statue of grief amidst the bustling life around her. She didn't move. She didn't speak. The world continued to spin, indifferent to her silent suffering.

Emotion: resentful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.47 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion resentful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 resentful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the resentful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the resentful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.485
`aggravated`	0.263
`愤`	0.261
`👎`	0.245
`L`	0.241

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.318
`soon`	-0.225
`随后`	-0.225
`serendip`	-0.219
`🤩`	-0.210